Shirt and reversible cuff therefor.



. 'P.A .7D'UNN. sum A'ND 'ngvensuslg CUFF THEREFOR.

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than it is when the cuff is in its reversed PETER A. DUNN, OF CORONA, NEW YORK.

SHIRT AND REVERSIBLE CUFF THEREFOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fi1ed Apri11.1,1912 Serial No. .690,147. I

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PETER A. DUNN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Corona, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts and Reversible Cuffs Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in shirts and reversible cuffs thereon, and it consists in the novel features pertaining to the structure of the cuff hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim. Y j

Shirt sleeves having reversible cuffs thereon or detachably applied thereto, so that the cuff may stand at the outer side of the sleeve or turned to stand at the inner side of the sleeve, are well known, but have heretofore possessed disadvantages which it is believed have prevented the shirts from proving to be entirely acceptable to the trade and public. One objection to reversible cuffs heretofore permanently fastened or detachably connected with the wrist portion of a shirt sleeve, has been that While the cuff when standing at the outer side of the sleeve has a presentable appearance, it lacks such appearance except at its then outer end portion when reversed or'turned into the wrist portion of the sleeve. Another objection to reversible cuffs of the classto which my invention pertains is that as heretofore designed .they have been unduly wide for general use, and a further objection to many of these cuffs has been that when turned one way a wider cuff is presented thanwhen turned the opposite way, this resulting in the length of the shirt sleevebeing greater when the cuff is in one position position.

One of the purposes of my invention is to provide a cuff structure permanently .connected with the shirt sleeve, which will permit the article to present just as extended a cuff surface when the cuff is turned into the wrist portionof the sleeve as at the outer side thereof.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide a cuff structure of desirable characternot only presenting a good appearance but capable of ready manufacture and of being conveniently laundried.

Another purpose of the invention is'to present a cuff which affords the same Width when standing anddoes not vary the length of the shirt sleeve whether turned inwardly or outwardly for wearing, and,- further, my invention provides a very neat, narrow, de-

sirable cuff having a special buttonhole stru'ctureenabling the proper securing of the cuff around the wrist by a single button, the .latter serving to close both-the cuff and shirt sleeve.

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter Patented Oct. 3, 1916.

presented, reference being had to the accompanylng drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a. cuff and a portion of a shirt sleeve embodying my invention,-the cuff being illustrated in an unfolded condition and with the reversible portion thereof standing at an angle tothe other part of the cuff; Fig. 2 is a corresponding view of the same, but taken from a different position and illustrating the outer face of the reversible part of the cuff; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the cuff folded for wear and with its reversible portion standing at the, outer side of the shirtsleeve Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical section through the cuff and a portion of the shirt sleeve taken on a 'line through the button-hole structure of the cuff and illustrating the reversible portion of the cuff as standing at a right angle to the other part thereof, and F ig.-5 is a perspective view of a portion of the cuff'and shirt sleeve with the reversible part of the cuff standing at a right angle to the other portion thereof, Fig. 5"being presented to illustrate on a larger scale the button-hole formation of the cuff.

In the drawings, 10 designatesaportion of a shirt sleeve which except atits wrist portion is of usual or any suitable formation, 11 the main body of the cuff, and 12 an auxiliary portion of the cuff and which also constitutes 01' serves as a substitute for the wrist portion of the sleeve 10. The

auxiliary portion 12 extends from about the horizontal middleline of the cuff to about thelower edge thereof, this enabling the cuff structure, when reversed inwardly, to present a cuff of substantially the same depth as the main body, portion of the cuff does when at the outer side of the sleeve.

. v inwardly. he body 11 ofthe cuff and the auxiliary portion 12 thereof constitute an integral structure which is at the lower edge of the auxiliary portion 12,, permanently secured by sewing to the edge of the shirt sleeve. 3 Q

The cuff-body 11 and auxiliary portion 12. are of laminated structure or formed of layers of material of suitable character for cuff construction, and these layers are preferably arranged in a manner illustrated more particularly in Fig. 4:, in which it may be observed that at the outer side of the body 11 there is a covering fabric 14 extending from oneedgeto the other of said body, and that at the opposite side of'the body 11 there is an exterior covering fabric 15 which extends from one edge of the body to the ripper edge of the auxiliary portion 12 and then downwardly along said auxiliary portion to the lower edge thereof, while the same side of the cuff, at'its other half, has a covering fabric 16 which extends from the outer edge thereof to the upper edge of the auxiliary portion 12 and thence downwardly along the face of said auxiliary portion, there thus being one exterior piece. of fabric 14- for the plain and normally outer side, of the cuff and two pieces of said covering fabric 15, 16 for what we may call the inner face of the cuff,

the-piece 15 extending over about one-half of the body of the cuff and then downwardly upon and helping to constitute the auxiliary portion 12, and the piece 16 covering the other half of the inner face of the cuff and one face of the auxiliary portion 12. There are thus three pieces of exterior covering fabric 1n the cuff construction.

Between the covering fabric 14, 15, 16,

there are suitable stiffening linings, one piece of this lining, numbered 17, being against the inner face of the fabric 14 and another piece 18 being against the inner face of the piece of fabric 15 and extending from the adjacent outer edge ofthe body 11 to the upper edge of the auxiliary portion 12 and there terminating, and another piece 19 being against the piece of fabric 16 and extending from the adjacent outer edge of v the body 11 to the upper edge of the auxiliary portion 12 and thence downwardly within said auxiliary portion to' the lower edge thereof. There are thus three pieces of lining fabric employed in the construction in addition to the three pieces of covering fabric, and these parts are sewn together .along the edges of the cuff and its aux1liary portion, and, as shown, the connection of the cuff structure to the shlrt sleeve is at 'the lower edge of said auxiliary portion 12.

It is to be noted that the auxiliary portion 12 is not an ordinary wrist-band but a. substantial cuff structure with no seam at its upper edge connecting it with the body 11.

dried throughout in the usual or any suitable manner, a finished appearance being imparted to both sides of the body 11 and auxiliary portion 12. iVhen the body 11 is at the outer side-of the shirt sleeve,'-as shown in Fig. 1, the full extent of said body is exposed and a cuff of desirable character is presented, but when the body 11 is reversed inwardly to extend at the inner side of the auxiliary portion 12, one half of its extent is concealed behind said auxiliary portion and at this time said auxiliary portion being of cuff construction and properly laundried and equal in extent to-one-half of the body 11, co-acts with the exposed portion of said body to present a cuff of proper appearance and extent. '1 preferably do not have any line.of stitches along the upper edge of the.

auxiliary portion 12, and hence when said auxiliary portion is ironed fiat, a substantially continuous unbroken surface is presented by the outer face of said auxiliary portion and that part of the body 11 above it.

The button-hole features of the cuff constitute a part of my invention and enable the securing of the cuff and shirt sleeve about the wrist with a single button or single link. The formation of the button-holes is illustrated in Figs. 4. and 5 in which it may be seen that'at the upper edge of the auxiliary portion 12, near each end thereof, there is provided a. button-hole 20 and that at the center of thebody portion 11, near each end thereof, is formed a button-hole 21 which is in communication with the aforesaid button-hole 20, the two button-holes constituting in effect a single button-hole adapted to receive a cuff button or link whether the body portion 11 of the cuff is at the outer side or at the inner side of the auxiliary portion 12. .VVhen the body portion 11is at the outer side of the auxiliary portion 12, as shown in Fig. 3, a cuff button or link may be extended through the button-holes at the center of the opposite ends of the cuff, as is apparent, and when the body portion 11 is reversed to stand at the inner side of the auxiliary portion 12, the button-holes 20, 21 will still be in register and ready to receive a single button or link. The placing of the button-holes at the center of the cuff is very advantageous in that by reason thereof a single button or link i the longitudinal middle of one side of said body-portion to said sleeve and permanently secured at its lower edge thereto, both of said portions containing continuous outer layers and a lining layer and said auxiliary portion serving as a wrist-band on .the sleeve, said auxiliary portion having smooth outer face to coact with .the upper part "of said body-portion, when the "latter is reversed inwardly, to create a cuff of adequate extent, and said body-portion and auxiliary portion each being provided near each end and on the line of the upper. edge of said auxiliary portion, with a button- ,hole, the hole in said body-portion being in 15 r the hole in said auxil- 

